Emanuele
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Emanuele is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. In Italian, recorded as a male given name, equivalent to English Emmanuel or Immanuel.
- ITItaly≈1 in 498(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 2.7K
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 7.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 121 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 498 (inferred from the name graph)
≈130,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Italian form of Emmanuel, 'God is with us'
Sources 1
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Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
How Emanuele is read(measured from records)
Emanuele is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Italian54%
a male given name, equivalent to English Emmanuel or Immanuel
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
do nome hebr. Immanu'el; latinizado em Emmanuel
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Dall'ebraico Immanu'el, 'Dio con noi'.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
- Portuguese24%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Emanuele in Portuguese.
- English7.2%
Italian form of Emmanuel, 'God is with us'
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The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Emanuele counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 498 | 1.1K | Emanuele | 86 |
| BR Brazil | 79,825 | 1 in 2.7K | 80K | Emanuele | 121 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 7.5K | 35 | Emanuele | 9 |
| FR France | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 71K | 13 | — | 2 |
| US United States | 852 | 1 in 390K | 1K | Emanuele | 44 |
| BE Belgium | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 28K | 18 | — | 3 |
| MD Moldova | 80 | 1 in 42K | 80 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; e-services.md — living population register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Emanuele is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
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Italian form of EMMANUEL . The name is fairly common in Italy among Gentiles as well as Jews. It was introduced to the royal house of Savoy at the beginning of the 16th century, when a daughter of Manoel I of Portugal married Carlo II of Savoy; the name was given to their son.
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Emanuele Filiberto I, Duke of Savoyb. 1528ITDuke of Savoy from 1553 to 1580 (1528-1580)
- Emmanuel Philibert, Prince of Carignanob. 1628FRnot in their usual namePrince of Savoy
- Carlo Emanuele IV of Sardiniab. 1751ITKing of Sardinia (1751-1819)
- Carlo Alberto I of Sardiniab. 1798FRnot in their usual nameKing of Sardinia from 1831 to 1849
- Humbert Ib. 1844ITnot in their usual nameking of Italy (1844-1900)
- Vittorio Emanuele Orlandob. 1860ITItalian diplomat (1860–1952)
- Vittorio Emanuele IIIb. 1869ITKing of Italy from 1900 to 1946
- Prince Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aostab. 1869ITItalian general (1869–1931)
- Emanuele Crialeseb. 1965ITItalian film director (born 1965)
- Emanuele Filiberto di Savoiab. 1972CHHead of the House of Savoy (2024)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 67 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 80K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 79K | #382 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 38K | #931 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 15K | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 1.1K | #35 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 799 | #13,975 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 618 | #382 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 80 | #1,057 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 53 | #13,975 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 7 | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2023 | 2 | #3,545 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Emanuele come from?
- Italian form of Emmanuel, 'God is with us' Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- What does the name Emanuele mean?
- In Italian, a male given name, equivalent to English Emmanuel or Immanuel
- How common is the name Emanuele?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 79,825 people named Emanuele in 2022, about 1 in 2.7 thousand residents.
- Is Emanuele a male or female name?
- Emanuele is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Emanuele?
- In the etymology graph, Manuel, Emmanuel and Manoel are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Emanuele have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 125 thousand people named Emanuele in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled emanuele.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/emanueleThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Emanuele”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.